ReviewPathogens and global health2014
Water-based interventions for schistosomiasis control.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 120 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis on the rate of human schistosomiasis reinfection.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- The roles of water, sanitation and hygiene in reducing schistosomiasis: a review.Parasites & vectors · 2015Pooled it
- A 5-Year intervention study on elimination of urogenital schistosomiasis in Zanzibar: Parasitological results of annual cross-sectional surveys.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Trial
- Cost analysis of implementing community-based mass drug administration for schistosomiasis control among adult individuals using community drug distributors in Ukerewe district council, North-Western Tanzania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Biological Activity of Stilbenoids Against Fungal, Parasitic, and Viral Pathogens.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Towards elimination of genital schistosomiasis in Africa: Outlining strategic public health objectives and measures to protect future generations.Parasitology · 2025Review
- A video-based educational intervention to improve vaccine acceptance for Schistosomiasis japonicum: A pre-post study using the 5C model in rural China.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Structural Mechanisms Driving the Selective Efficacy of Oxamniquine against Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2025Article
- Schistosomiasis and water resources development in Africa: A scoping review and multi-case evaluation of associated snail control.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Impact of Praziquantel Mass Drug Administration on Schistosomiasis: A Comparison of Prevalence and Risk Factors Between Treated School Aged Children and Untreated Adults in Abuja, Nigeria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis Among School Age Children: Impact of 3-5 Annual Rounds of Mass Drug Administration in Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Squamous Cell Bladder Cancer: A Rare Histological Variant with a Demand for Modern Cancer Therapeutics.Cancers · 2025Review
- Urogenital Schistosomiasis on Santiago Island, Cabo Verde, 2023.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2025Article
- Symbiotic bacteria associated with entomopathogenic nematodes showed molluscicidal activity against Biomphalaria glabrata, an intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Liver fluke and schistosome cross-infection risk between livestock and wild mammals in Western Uganda, a One Health approach.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024Article
- Potential associations between Schistosoma mansoni infection and physico-chemical characteristics and water-related human activities in Côte d'Ivoire: a cross-sectional study.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Lipids from a snail host regulate the multicellular behavior of a predator of parasitic schistosomes.iScience · 2024Article
- Susceptibility of BS90 Biomphalaria glabrata snails to infection by SmLE Schistosoma mansoni segregates as a dominant allele in a cluster of polymorphic genes for single-pass transmembrane proteins.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Insights into the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and differential diagnosis of schistosomiasis.European journal of microbiology & immunology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Mass drug administration with praziquantel is the mainstay of programs for the control of schistosomiasis morbidity. However, there is a growing recognition that treatment alone will not be sufficient for eventually effecting elimination and that additional measures will be required to interrupt transmission. In the absence of a safe and an effective vaccine for human schistosomiasis, the strategies to reduce infection levels will necessarily involve some interventions that affect the water-related stages of the schistosome life cycle: by reducing exposure to infectious water, by moderating availability of the intermediate snail host, or by decreasing contamination of water with egg-containing excreta. While much research on the importance of water on schistosomiasis has been performed, advances in these areas have perhaps languished with the ready availability of a cost-effective treatment. As some endemic areas near a shift to an elimination goal, a better understanding of water-based interventions that can be used alone or in concert with treatment will be needed. Reinvigoration of laboratory, field, and human behavioral aspects of this research now will ensure that the appropriate strategies are available by the time their implementation becomes necessary.
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